Skip to main content

2 Samuel 16:22

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

KJV

Tetenderunt ergo Absalom tabernaculum in solario, ingressusque est ad concubinas patris sui coram universo Israël.

Vulgate

καὶ ἔπηξαν τὴν σκηνὴν τῷ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐπὶ τὸ δῶμα, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ πρὸς τὰς παλλακὰς τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ κατ’ ὀφθαλμοὺς παντὸς Ἰσραήλ.

LXX

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

ASV

וַ/יַּטּ֧וּ לְ/אַבְשָׁל֛וֹם הָ/אֹ֖הֶל עַל הַ/גָּ֑ג וַ/יָּבֹ֤א אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁ֣י אָבִ֔י/ו לְ/עֵינֵ֖י כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In this verse

People Absalom

In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙
'bshlvm
proper_noun · 111×
אֹ֣הֶל
'hl
noun · 344×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
גָּֽג
gg
noun · 31×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
וֹ
v
noun · 37×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 12:11 — Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in
  • 2Sam 12:12 — For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
  • 2Sam 15:16 — And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
  • 2Sam 20:3 — And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they wer